How To Use Coyness In A Sentence
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While the record's disposition may be a departure for these New Yorkers, their coyness in discussing it is not.
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Mr. Darcy frowned while he normally enjoyed Miss Elizabeth's coyness, at time like these it could be most vexing.
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The coyness about the price is, we presume, because the actual selling price will be dependent on the kinds of discount deals on offer.
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Gummo Trotsky, possibly inspired by last week's story of his unaccustomed silence, has now turned his coyness into 34 comments.
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Such coyness raises my suspicions a little.
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Stage fright masks itself as a domineering style, or as coyness, egoism, or pride.
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Bravely and unselfconsciously, this generous actress looks middle-aged, yet with that gangly tomboyish essence that allows her to play young without resorting to cosmetic artifice or girly-girl coyness.
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There is no fear of such politically-correct coyness with Mr Strache.
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Suddenly the coyness was gone from her voice, replaced by genuine wistfulness.
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Adults, who were shy as toddlers, had stronger brain activity in a part of the brain associated with coyness.
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An elegant lady, he believed, initially refuses the proposals of a man whom she secretly admires; through her coyness she seeks to capture his heart more firmly.
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Despite his after-the-event coyness, we all know who he is singing about.
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But, above all, they had the modesty of pride, a chaste reserve, a/touch-me-not/which at a maturer age might have seemed intentional coyness, so much did their demeanor inspire a wish to know them.
The Commission in Lunacy
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While Broadway audiences may have found such bait-and-switch tactics to be titillating back in the benighted days of "Victor/Victoria," they're now more than capable of taking homosexuality straight, and the clumsy coyness with which Messrs.
'Clear Day,' Muddled Effort
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They make the capture a sequence of "coyness," whereas in truth the coyness (if it may be so called) is a result of capture.
Primitive Love and Love-Stories
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This Bach is not as reverently worshiped, it is adored with coyness, sparkle, and a twinkling eye.
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And then there's her apparent coyness about her breasts.
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He is describing a paradigm shift, and this fact is all the more obvious for his unwonted coyness in discussing it.
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I call it folly, not because I am adverse to feminine reserve, not because I am prone to quarrel even with what I call coyness; but because I know his nature so well, and feel that he would not bear rebuffs of which many another man would think nothing; that he would not bring himself to ask again, perhaps even for
Ayala's Angel
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There's no mistaking his evil intent, so the coyness of the first half of the film, which slowly hints at it, seems utterly unnecessary.
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Yet agents and buying agents, with unusual coyness and some desperation, are reporting a lack of stock and turning away buyers.
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The kind of coyness which she had displayed had been the very infatuation of feminine imbecility.
Ayala's Angel
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From its impenetrable title to the insular instrumental segues between the real songs, the man's second record risks coyness at every turn.
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His coyness irritates me further.
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I detect a David Lynchian coyness here - Lynch is famous for disavowing any complex or psychologized readings of his work.
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In the subsequent intervals the females continually respond with near optimal coyness.
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He held her by the shoulders and looked straight into her eyes, past the familiar coyness and unfamiliar anger until he saw the quiet spot he was looking for.
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Machismo, an attitude of male superiority and sexism, is widespread (marianismo, an attitude of female passivity and coyness, is the counterpart of machismo).
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She will rather die than give any sign of affection," says Benedick of Beatrice; and in that line Shakspere reveals one of the two essential traits of genuine modern coyness -- _dissemblance of feminine affection_.
Primitive Love and Love-Stories
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Gould is describing a paradigm shift, and this fact is all the more obvious for his unwonted coyness in discussing it.
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Where combine with all her coyness her pride and pudency:
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Why does Rebecca's coyness work?
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It is in _this_ sense that "coyness" is obviously a trait of primitive maidens.
Primitive Love and Love-Stories
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Bravely and unselfconsciously, this generous actress looks middle-aged, yet with that gangly tomboyish essence that allows her to play young without resorting to cosmetic artifice or girly-girl coyness.
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Lord of my heart, no more shall there be for me waiting in corners, no more coyness and sweetness of demeanour.
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Elizabeth was not so easy to give in to such coyness.
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In an industry famed for its confidence and self-belief, there's no room for coyness or self-depreciation.
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I call it folly, not because I am adverse to feminine reserve, not because I am prone to quarrel even with what I call coyness; but because I know his nature so well, and feel that he would not bear rebuffs of which many another man would think nothing; that he would not bring himself to ask again, perhaps even for a seventh time, as they might do.
Ayala's Angel
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Miss Austen also raises the question many intelligent women find themselves asking: Is all this coyness really necessary?
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Her playful tone echoes these predecessors, but with a coyness that seems distinctly feminine.
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But the coyness is a diversionary tactic: it masks the deep normative commitments that in fact saturate Smart's work.
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Feigned unwillingness or indifference in obedience to such advice may perhaps be called coyness, but it is only a coarse primitive phase of that attitude, based on sordid, mercenary motives, whereas true modern coyness consists in an impulse, grounded in modesty, to conceal affection.
Primitive Love and Love-Stories
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Passivity, submissiveness and coyness can be dangerous, and may create an atmosphere of sexual aggression.
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Although he felt sure he would win her in the end, he was annoyed at her continuing coyness.
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My lady, fair and lovely and unkind, your gentle coyness wounds me to the heart.
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He loved gossip, had a wicked salacious eye, a sly coyness, and he actually snickered all the time, delicious and conspiratorial.
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The customary number with children from the audience goes without gush or embarrassing coyness.
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contrived coyness
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I could never predict what would set it off, the coyness or the flighty laughter that would usually gain me at least one attentive admirer for a night.
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Nor is it totally incomprehensible that some people find Britney's coyness in interviews disingenuous.
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Inasmuch as she _must_ resist whether she likes the man or not, how could such sham "coyness" be a symptom of love?
Primitive Love and Love-Stories
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Gorgeous George, doing the nance bit with a female impersonator's coyness, was a hell of a draw for a while.
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While the mayor may feign coyness, his friends have no hesitation in saying what he isn't "at liberty" to say.
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Am I utterly evil and cynical to think this coyness is the most clever way to raise investor interest?
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Attack it with irony, with anger, coyness, doubt.
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It is a classic example of the sort of nineteenth-century picture that can evoke admiration for its dazzling technique while inducing a vague nausea over its coyness and kitsch.
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Strictly speaking, there is no gene for a sucking reflex, let alone for female coyness or Scottish thriftiness or cognizance of the concept of zero.
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Others show less cossie coyness with itsy bitsy bikinis and monokinis.
The Sun
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Both are sandwiched into a small swing between fat pink silk bolsters so there isn't much room for coyness.
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I only answered by an incredulous smile, which, for all his monastic subtlety, struck him as the expression of a young girl's coyness.
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Stewart gestured crossing his heart and sealing his lips and laughed heartily at his master's coyness.
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So why the coyness about these advances in political freedom?
